A coalition of reproductive rights teams requested a federal courtroom Tuesday to cease Georgia’s restrictive new anti-abortion regulation from taking impact throughout their authorized problem.

The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, Deliberate Parenthood and the Middle for Reproductive Rights are searching for a preliminary injunction to dam the regulation ― set to kick in on Jan. 1, 2020 ― whereas their lawsuit difficult its constitutionality stays ongoing. The teams sued in Atlanta’s U.S. district courtroom in June.

Georgia’s H.B. 481 handed in a wave of anti-abortion laws that swept state legislatures earlier this 12 months. It is without doubt one of the strictest anti-abortion legal guidelines up to now, banning most abortions after simply six weeks of being pregnant, a time when many individuals don’t notice they’re pregnant.

The regulation additionally grants “personhood status” to fetuses, a transfer that might have cascading authorized implications like criminalizing miscarriages and abortions exterior of incest or rape. Comparable measures have didn’t move in different states.

“This legislation is blatantly unconstitutional under nearly 50 years of U.S. Supreme Court precedent,” stated Sean J. Younger, authorized director of the ACLU of Georgia. “Politicians have no business telling women or a couple when to start or expand a family.”

Georgia, which has change into residence to a budding movie trade, confronted backlash earlier this 12 months as dozens of celebrities urged manufacturing corporations to go away the state in protest of the regulation. A few of Georgia’s district attorneys have vowed to not implement it.

“We have great confidence that the Court will enjoin this unconstitutional law from ever taking effect,” the state’s Home Minority Chief Robert Trammell (D) advised HuffPost. “The fact remains, however, that the passage of this law should send a clear warning to all Georgians that the rights of women in Georgia are unsafe until a new governing majority is elected.”

Speaker of the Home David Ralston (R) and Rep. Ed Setzler (R), who sponsored the invoice, didn’t reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.

Georgia joined a number of different states this 12 months in passing partial or near-total bans on abortion, together with legal guidelines in Alabama, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri.

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